Hikaru Nakamura: "Pavel Eljanov Played Better Than I Did"

"Alas it has all come to an end in round 5 of the Fide World Cup!, - Hikaru Nakamura summarized his performance on his Facebook page. - Simply put, my opponent Pavel Eljanov played better than I did, especially yesterday when he found a nice sacrificial idea to which I responded very poorly.

As always, it was a pleasure being in Baku, and I am looking forward to being back next year for the Chess Olympiad."

FIDE has published its official rating list for October 2015. For the first time in career, Hikaru Nakamura occupies the 2nd rank with 2816, next to the World champion Magnus Carlsen, who, as usual, tops the list with 2850. Veselin Topalov is #3 with 2813, followed by Viswanathan Anand (2803) and Anish Giri (2798).

Ukrainian GM Pavel Eljanov gave an interview to Chessdom and complained: "Unfortunately my ELO is too low now to count on invitations to any big tournaments". Despite that: "I have some leagues and will probably play in some official tournaments like the European championship or the Ukrainian championship."

The Ukrainian GM Pavel Eljanov gained his second win at the European Individual Chess Championship and gave a short commentary to Chess-News after the encounter was finished. Namely, Evgeny Surov asked Pavel how he managed to win in a exchange variation of Slav defence.

FIDE rating list for December 1st has been published. Magnus Carlsen keeps the top position, but his rating dropped to 2834 - last time it had been lower than that four years ago, in November 2011. Meanwhile, the Women's World Champion Mariya Muzychuk flew up the list, being third for the first time in career.

The participant of the super-tournament in Reggio Emilia Hikaru Nakamura lost three last games and gave away the first place, which he occupied for the most part of the competition. As usually, GM made short tweets on his personal Twitter page. This time his expressions towards himself were less sharp.